Olinde Rodrigues
Olinde Rodrigues · Science & Medicine
Rodrigues' formula and rotation composition
1795, Bordeaux, France — 1851, Paris, France
France
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Rodrigues was a French mathematician, banker and social reformer remembered for Rodrigues' formula for Legendre polynomials and for the Euler–Rodrigues formula describing the composition of rotations in space, an early anticipation of quaternions. A follower of Saint-Simon, he also wrote on social reform. He was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Bordeaux.
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Rodrigues' formula and rotation composition
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